Scribbles & Sketches

Meet Hershey.

This started out as a t-shirt idea for my father. I started thinking about the patterning again and camo came to mind. My dad loves camo. Then I just started duplicating. I think if I were to go with this design, I would have it silk screened on a pillow or on another material (metal or wood) so he could hang it somewhere. If I were to follow through on a t-shirt, I think I would loose the background and just print the larger portrait on a camo shirt.

I started an illustration that I didn’t have the time to finish tonight. But, I took some photos of the snow today and had a little fun in Photoshop.

Just some unrelated scribbles.

Most of the time I get caught up in big ideas/projects and forget to take the time to just let go. So I came up with Jack ( on the left) who wanted to be Frankenstein for Halloween but all he had was a safari hat. On the right is the State Puff Lego Man who is crushing a car. I’m not really sure where they lived in my brain, but the ended up on the paper.

I was running short on time this evening. I wasn’t able to attend my drawing class due to my day job and I have been trouble shooting my email problems during the time I had left for drawing. Never use an IMAP account!

This is something I did in preparation for a painting. Maybe by posting this solo sketch, it will inspire me to finish the painting. These manikin statues have always intrigued me though. I have the cat and dog manikins too, so maybe they will make an appearance at some point. We’ll see.

Last weekend I bought a book called “Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns” by Mike Perry. It has some really cool stuff inside and inspired me to create a pattern of my own. So I just started drawing lines and shapes until I ended up with this.

I scanned it in and then duplicated and rotated it to create the texture below.

There is a nice contrast between the single image and the pattern. In the pattern image the negative shapes becomes the dominate elements and everything else is just value.

Here is the finished monkey. I just came from the birthday’s girls house and she loved her Birthday Monkey. I was hoping to get another sketch in tonight, but I think I’ll just start fresh tomorrow.

Here is a little bit more progress. A headache is preventing me from finishing this guy up so I’ll be back at it in the AM.

Just a doodle of an idea i once had  for a wristband tattoo.

Here is an in-progress image of the monkey sketch I posted last night. I usually lay in the value structure before I start applying color. I hope to finish it up tomorrow.